There is still racism, religious problems and religious fundamentals, war and fighting. So yes I agree we are not that much different than before.
Go to south the bible belt communities in US.
When comes to human sexuality issue now it more a private thing!! We don’t care who you make love to and what you do in your bedroom now.
So in some ways today we are really liberal and in other ways we are still really conservative.
I remember in 90’s in school everyone finding out of you are gay or not. Teens going up to teens asking are you gay. All the gay comments and finding out who is gay.
Well sense encyclopedia say women’s rights and human sexuality was significant concern in 60’s and 70’s . And doing world war one and world war two thinking you not going to make it to your 20th bird day that circumstances like women’s rights and human sexuality would take back seat doing war time. And when the economy improves and there are jobs well conditions like women’s rights and human sexuality can materialize as concern among people.
And well sense nobody challenged my thesis laws back than did this and that.
And I’m too busy with job and family problems to read history book on what life was life back than and continue this thread . I’m going to assert that sex out of marriage and wedlock birth that people where put in jail back than along with homosexuals. And was major concern among political activists, hippies and people back than.
And when the economy improved that people came out of the woodwork to challenge theocracy government and theocracy laws.
Wut?!? . I’m not American and with 1968 born too late to have personal insight, but I’m absolutely positive that even before the hippie movement, nobody in America got jailed for producing children out of wedlock and that the USA was not a theocracy.
I graduated high school in 1967 in Los Angeles, right in the middel of the hippie movement. I was one of the poor ones but I still had a fridge, t.v. Telephone, plenty of food, and parents owned the home. I would say spoiled kids.
Whatever they were they were fucking useless, except they provided media content for middle class kids reporting on middle class angst for their middle class audiences.
Besides, what DO we mean by “hippies” or hippiedom. I do agree that from all I read and watch and hear from those who lived it, the true social trasformation and cultural upheaval ot the 60s (that is* to this very day *being relitigated) was not the work of people who had turned on, tuned in and dropped out, but of people who remained very much engaged. “Hippies” (the earnest ones who would show up) were *part *of the movements but hardly the prime drivers of actual changes in politics or social culture. I don’t think Betty Friedan was any sort of hippie as we think of it today. Neither the Black Civil Rights leaders, nor Cesar Chavez or Gene McCarthy or Masters & Johnson.
OTOH, ISTM a vast majority of what we call hippies can be placed in the proverbial “mostly harmless but to themselves” category. As was mentioned, though, a number of them walked the talk or at least tried to as close as they could, and I don’t see how that should be held against them.
I am reminded, though I was too young to be following on it at the time, that the “old school” Haight-Ashbury community held what they called “the Funeral for Hippie, beloved son of Mass Media” in the Fall of 67. Because they knew that the whole notion of “the hippie” had already been turned by media into what we’d call now a “trending topic” and was being overrun by those in it just for the excuse to act up or make a facile “statement” while dropping a lot of acid and making a lot of “free love”, rather than actually having a point about breaking the lock of postwar mainstream mores and expectations. “Hippie” largely became just someone who looked and smelled the part and talked the talk.
Hunter Thompson writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1971 refers to the peak of the “genuine” counterculture having happened around that time or even earlier and by the time he writes having ebbed (“We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . . So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”)
. I’m not American and with 1968 born too late to have personal insight, but I’m absolutely positive that even before the hippie movement, nobody in America got jailed for producing children out of wedlock and that the USA was not a theocracy.
the part and talked the talk.